Patricia Arquette Quotations

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

I find that men are far more vain than women.

We all have our own little thing, I think.

I wouldn't say that I've done a lot. I'm one of a lot of people who did a little, and I want to do more.

For movie "Human Nature": "I made a pubic wig.

I want to thank you for this honor, for putting me in this incredible company,

I thought I'd throw down a bit of the east L.A. thing.

For days I've been obsessed with this Katrina thing.

Then I got a phone call and was offered a Rolling Stones video. I love the Rolling Stones so I asked them to send over the director's reel.

It's hard for me to do nudity at all but I feel about as much body shame without hair, as Lila feels with hair. That was interesting.

It was like being in a weird dream.

He's my favorite actor, and watching him build a character from scratch and reveal itself -- it was really fascinating.

There was a time when only men could provide or work, and still a lot of countries are like that. But there's a price to be paid for that when you're expected to be the full-time caretaker and you're expected to be the full-time breadwinner.

The truth is, even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface there are huge issues that are at play that really do affect women. And it’s time for all the women in America and all the men that love women, and all the gay people, and all the people of color that we’ve all fought for, to fight for us now.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.

There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are not women that are on welfare, these are working women. How different would there life be if they're making an extra 40 to 60 cents to the dollar. We can't do this to our kids anymore.

To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

There's something I really like about network TV. You have this humongous audience, tens of millions of people, and you really can be in a little hut in Thailand; you really can be in the middle of an apartment in Dubai. There's something about public entertainment that I always liked. I like smaller movies, and I like public entertainment.

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.

You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living.

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

It's always beautiful to see people striving to grow.

I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.

It's easy for people to come in when they think you're in a hot moment of your life, but it's really nice also for people who believe in your work for the long term and are there not when something hip's happening at that moment.

To be a woman in law enforcement on television, I think, is sort of important. It's a powerful position for a woman to be in, but also to be looking at these new technologies, exploring these new technologies.

The interesting thing about cybercrime and the whole cyber world is that many of the people that are most proficient in it are young people, really young people.

Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.

A six year old can probably do more on their iPad than you can do and access more. My daughter's swiping away windows and doing all these things that I don't know how to do.

I'm not a technical person. It's not something I personally do love. I'm actually terrified of it, and that is what's interesting to me about it.

Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.

If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.

I definitely isolate, but I also always have people in front of me, and I have to be OK with that. I'm in a business where, on the set, you're around two hundred people every day, and if you're high on the call sheet, you sort of set the tone for the set. And you want people to feel appreciated, and you want to ask them how their kids are. You want to talk to people and invest in them and let them know that they're appreciated and heard. But then I do like to just kind of withdraw.

Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.

Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.

Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our children and to try to do all these different things. The expectations have changed drastically, and thank God they have. Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.

I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

Sometimes, when you briefly glance in Hollywood, there's a tendency to play it in a very "Yes, she's exhausted, and yes, she's working, and yes, she's taking care of her kids full time, and yes, she's a mom, but she's also in a great mood all the time."

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug.

To really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing. Just being an actress in Hollywood is very vulnerable. To let all these other people decide whether you're really of value or not, you have to really be strong to know that, of course, they have a right to their opinion, but their opinion doesn't matter as far as yourself.

Of course, a lot of courtship and dating is about sexual attraction. If you're an attractive person, you have that sort of interest from people, whether you cater to it or not, but when you get older, that's not really the leading thing anymore.

As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.

I think there can always be beauty in struggle. I mean, as far as childbirth, I had my son in the hospital, but then I had my daughter at home. There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.

What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family, and their norm is already in your red zone of dangerous feeling or feeling too chaotic. You don't get to really do anything about that when you're a kid.

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

I was raised by somebody with the perception of trying to allow me the space and show me the importance of knowing who I was and figuring out who I was and appreciating who I was.

I know when we were really little, my mom would say to me, "If you can, the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, just get quiet and ask God, 'Who is Patricia?' You can feel your own nature and know who you are."

The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti through safe and sustainable housing, sanitation solutions, and water filtration devices.

I'm the only nerd with a piece of paper,

I know I love my kids and I know they love me. I know I have beautiful friends and a great family, and I know I've been really blessed in this life.

I hope some of your DNA transferred to me.

You want your partner to objectify you.

This is like wartime. And all the poor, all the working poor who live from paycheck to paycheck. This is America. This is the richest country in the world. I can't sleep at night.

This is a great honor, being nominated. That's beautiful. But this (Katrina) is happening right NOW. And trucks are coming back from the South saying people need diapers, supplies. ... Medium.